Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-20
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.


TIE prohibitionists of New York are
talking of erecting a large hall at a cost
OF 100000.
SYLyANIUs CoBB, Jr., wrote one hundred
and eight long stories that were pub
lished IN the New York Ledger.
COLONEL d. r. ANTHoNY has sold the
Leavenworth Times to a New England
Syndicate for 100000.
MoRE than $30,00o,000 in mutilated
n.tes are redeemed each year az the Sub.
Treasury.
JESSE GRANT is likely to become the
richest member Of his family through his
Interests in the Lake Superior iroa mines.
He may yet become an iron king.
A MGTEoRIC stone weighing 4215 pounds,
and resembling iron in appearance, has
been found on Honey creek, near Tiffin,
Ohio.
THE value of permanent school proper
~ in Dakota is not far from $3,O00,000.
II has increased from less than $4,000 in
1877.
Tar British steamship Hugh Lenden,
with 1000 bales of cotton on board for
Liverpool, was burned at Savanna, Ga,
Oct y.
ROBERT GARRErI has resigned the
Presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and the Board of Directors has
accepted the resignation.
The Niobrar Lard and Cattle Com
pany, owning herds in the far west, and
having its headquarters at st. Loais, has
failed. Liabilities, $350000; assets, $3.50
600.
A CHERRY TREE of the white oxheart
variety on the prenises of John Capara,
Of Oroyille Gal, bore this season $500
pounds offruit. 1t is eighteen years old,
is sixty feet high and is six feet in cir
conference.
THE art of paper making has reached a
point where . growing tree may be cut
down, made into paper, and turned out
as a newspaper, all within thirty-six hours.
The first act of the American Bankers
Association, in session at Pittsburgh, was
the adoption of a resolution recommend
ing such an extradition treaty between
this country and Great Britain as would
cover the cases of dofaulters and embez-
zlets.
MAYOR RoonE has given orders TO the
police to suppress the crazy harangues
of George Francis Train, who, being
either insane or morbidly anxious for
uotOriety, adyertises meetings of sym
pathy in behalf OF anarchy and anar-
chism.
4 SILVER dollar split in two, hollowe
out, and oiled with a compound of glass
and anthony, which gives it the correct
ringing sound, is the latest counterfeitSto
be put in circulation in New York city.
TWENTY natives of the Flowery king.
dom are in Jail at Tacoma, Washington
territory, charged with having smuggled
themselves into the United States from
British Columbia.
UNITED STATES SENATOR AND Mrs
HEABsr have just given handsome sum
4 TO q Hebrew congregation in San Fran
| cisco toward the erection of new syna
gogue.
THE killing of squirrels, prairie dogs
/ bears, mountain lions, wolves and coyotes
| il quite an expensive item in the yearly
| budget of Montana. From January tc
1 August, 1887, that territory paid IN boun'
ties S9G,025.10
JESSE JAMES, of ArmOurdale, a cousin
OF Frank James, the outlaw, has gone tt
/ Dallas, Tex, where is said to be dying
Frank James went to Fallae about sil
months ago.
EIGHT new cases of fever have broker
out at Tampa, Florida, There is urgen
| need OF money and nurses, as the tow
treasury is empty and the inhabitant
/ panic stricken.
! MISS RosE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, siste
| of President Cleveland, arrived in New
| York last week and began her new duties
as teacher of American history in Z
| young ladies boarding school near Cen
/ trGl Park
/ In riot between several thousand Or
augemen and Catholics at Toronto, On
/ tario, on the occasion of q banquet tC
| Cardinal Tasohereau, mahy persons were
4 INJURED, but the police finally dispersed
/ the attacking mob OF Orangemen.
MRs. JoHN JACOB AsroR is dangerously
/ IL at Newport. Although fabulousl!
rich she Is q plain woman in her tastes
and devotes much of her time and wealth
I to works Of charity. Her death would b,
calamity TO many poor people of New
York.
Tue New York health authorities re
port that the cholera infection on tht
Italian steamship in the lower bay hat
been destroyed, aud that there Is M
cause for any further apprehension.
a TERRITORIAL convention of Utah, il
session at salt Lake City, has framed {
constitution and a memorial to Congress
asking to be admitted INTO the Union a
p State The convention Is composed OF
/ NugmOus.
THE two commissioners appointed b!
the President to meet similar represent
atiyos OF the British Government for the
negotiation of new fisheries treaty, art
now in conference with the Secretary OF
. State at Was hington.